Bill Adams New Work
May 3 - June 10, 2006
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Press Release
KS ART presents Bill Adams: New Work, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings. Adams' works are crowded with figures and creatures, dissolving boundaries between civilized man and untamed beast. These pictures evoke an embattled psychology of "life during wartime", with an immediacy of line, spontaneity of form, and an urgency of purpose.
In Adams' large-scale oil paintings on canvas, colorful crowds of masked figures, stacks of cut-off heads and other creatures populate an architecture of oil rigs in post-industrial landscapes. Painted with dispatch these works plumb the unconscious. The drawings are made with watercolor, colored pencil, and most prominently ballpoint pen which almost pierces the skin of the paper, a formal correlative for the manner in which these drawings also manage to get under the skin of the viewer.
This exhibition is the artist's fourth one-person show, and his second at KS ART. Adam's previous show in 2004 received reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Bill Adams lives and works in New York.